Re: [dvd::rip] consider frame range

[Brian <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Samstag, den 17.06.2006, 11:49 +0200 schrieb Jörn Reder:

> Ok, I just did this check: I transcoded a PAL 16:9 movie to 512x272 avi,
> target size 700 MB with a calculated video bitrate of 901 kbit/s, using
> xvid and mp3 audio, 128 kbit/s. The resulting file size was 731869026 
> bytes = 697 MB, which is Ok (2 MB difference are normal). Then I did the
> same transcoding with ffmpeg/mpeg4: nearly exactly the same file size, a
> difference of just 85KB! As well I reviewed the bitrate calculation 
> sheet and couldn't find any error (which was of course expected, because
> dvd::rip's bitrate calculation algorithm didn't change for ages and 
> works quite well for many people... ;)

Did you take XviD4? I don't know much about codecs but XviD4 seems to be
a modern codec.
Most of the time I take 735MB to get a file about 699MB.
But last time I even got 590MB only for a movie of 88 minutes. Because
the qualitiy is ok though, I will keep the file.

Brian